Example sentences of "[verb] been that [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 2 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 3 | This has sometimes been justified on security grounds but often the argument has been that disclosure is not in the public interest , that " secrecy is at all times the condition in which the best men make the best decisions . " |
| 4 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 5 | One of the problems with traditional remedial teaching has been that spelling and neatness are fetishes . |
| 6 | A more fundamental objection has been that music-hall and vaudeville were essentially controlled by showmen who were of course entrepreneurs . |
| 7 | One of the sad side-effects of industrial action during the early years of the implementation of ISS has been that work on improving the teacher-parent partnership has been more neglected by teachers than anyone initially expected . |
| 8 | In the past one accusation sometimes levelled against much primary school history has been that work is insufficiently " historical " in approach . |
| 9 | The underlying assumption has been that bureaucracy is desirable as an organizational principle because it attempts to clarify authority and accountability while depersonalising their application . |
| 10 | Until very recently the standard present-day answer to that question , at least among anthropologists , has been that man has culture and birds do not . |
| 11 | One result of this has been that theology itself has become ecumenical in a fashion undreamt of a century ago , and many of the main fronts in theological debate and controversy now run across rather than along denominational boundaries . |
| 12 | The reason given for this conviction has been that assessment , in grading pupils ' performance in any given test , would leave some pupils with a sense of being of less value than others in the class . |
| 13 | ‘ The argument for the reformers has been that punishment simply does not work . |
| 14 | The general view has been that theoria is the engine driving the historical development of science and that praxis is merely the application of theoria . |
| 15 | A significant milestone has been that product revenues for the AViiON line finally surpassed those of the proprietary Eclipse MV products . |
| 16 | One of the more important consequences of this action — a consequence , incidentally , that we are still feeling the effects of — has been that demand for UK goods has been reduced not only in the UK but also in the other major industrialised oil importing nations . |
| 17 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 18 | The general assumption ( as in most phonetics books ) has been that speech is composed of phonemes and that usually whenever a speech sound is produced by a speaker it is possible to identify which phoneme that sound belongs to . |
| 19 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 20 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 21 | Suspicions have sometimes been voiced that , whenever government has supported civic education , the reason has been that learning of this kind has been interpreted as supportive of a respectful attitude . |
| 22 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 23 | Their relationship was civilized and uncomplicated , and she wished it could have been that way too for Vi and Jane . |
| 24 | It might have been that way for a while , Scum argued , but after a couple of weeks the Boroughs shitkickers moved in , and the game was up . |
| 25 | A reasonable defence might have been that field sports were preferable to roaming the docks but , instead , the chief rabbi was assured that the boys needed the exercise . |
| 26 | It must have been that day or the next , Adam thought , that he or one of them , surely he , had first suggested the commune idea . |
| 27 | An uncommonly good lunch it must have been that day . |
| 28 | Sean , you could n't have been that shit-faced that you could n't go upto the Roger and ask him whether he was Roger or not ? |
| 29 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 30 | It might have been that night I dreamed |